From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: skge- "soft lockup on CPU#0" with mtu=9000 (2.6.20.1 + web100 patch) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:48:11 -0800 Message-ID: <20070308134811.38a8ec81@freekitty> References: <20070308113427.6344a7f6@freekitty> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Stromsoe Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:38078 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030680AbXCHVsT (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:48:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:31:13 -0800 (PST) Chris Stromsoe wrote: > Thanks. That fixes the soft lockup. > > I've got another problem now. The cards I'm using are dual port > (sk-9844). I am bonding both ports together. > > The card presents as eth2 and eth3. If I remove eth2 from the bond so > that eth3 is the active interface, I get a hard lock (nothing prints to > serial console, sysrq isn't responsive) and have to power cycle. > > This is with plain 2.6.20.1. I also tested using skge.[ch] from the > current netdev git tree. Which form of bonding failover, there are locking issues with some of the bonding modes. You should ask on the bonding mailing list. -- Stephen Hemminger